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Christine Makkes van der Deijl
1,928 PointsChanging background color in navigation
I tried to change the color of my navigation background to #599a68 but it doesn't change. Instead it's still #6ab47b.
Here's my syntax.
a { text-decoration: none; }
wrapper {
max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 5%; }
logo {
text-align: center; margin: 0; }
a { color: #6ab47b; }
header { background: #6ab47b; border-color: #599a68; }
h1, h2 { color: #fff; }
nav { background: #599a68; }
4 Answers
Aaron Lafleur
10,474 PointsCould you post your HTML markup so we can have a look?
John Donnell
7,801 Pointsyou may need to change the nav color in your @media css
Jan Copier
508 PointsIf there is a nav-tag in your code then it should have the #599a68-background color. If it doesn't then there is a part of CSS that is overriding (more specific selector). To test that easily you could try to change:
nav { background: #599a68; }
into
nav { background: #599a68 !important; }
If the bg-color changes then there is other CSS thats setting the bg-color. To find out what part it is you can use the console in Chrome (a very useful tool for many many things in webdevelopment).
Christine Makkes van der Deijl
1,928 PointsThanks for the help! I made a silly error in the html (empty 'nav'-tag), its all fine and dandy now!